Unconventional language hacking tips from Benny the Irish polyglot; travelling the world to learn languages to fluency and beyond!
If you read different sources to see what language ‘experts’ have to say about mastering a language, you’ll get such vastly different advice that sometimes it’s hard to know which one to apply. Listen a lot even when you sleep, read all day, study thousands of words of vocabulary before you are ready to speak, […]
Christmas is celebrated in many different ways around the world. So it's no surprise that the most iconic figure of the season (Santa) also has many guises.
Next week, I’ll announce my next huge 3 month project in the email list (sign up on the top-right of the site to find out before I announce it on the blog or elsewhere), and you’ll see plenty of language learning updates as I start from scratch, share my struggling progress, and hopefully reach my […]
What language should you learn next? This is a question only you can answer. But I’ve put together a guide to help you in your decision.
There are over 100 Chinese dialects - different ways of speaking Mandarin Chinese. Here’s what you need to know.
The question of “What do you do?” has always been a tough one for me to answer. I have actually had about 40 jobs in the last 10 years, so answering with a single description just doesn’t describe what I “do” with my life in any real sense. I was the race controller at a […]
Immersion is the best way to learn a language - and there’s no need to move overseas to do this. You can create an immersion environment on your phone.
What are you doing with your target language? Reading? Listening to Podcasts? Watching movies? That’s nice, but why should everyone else be having all the fun and leave you to be nothing more than an inactive spectator? It’s time to get active with your language and/or travels! This doesn’t just mean finding ways to meet […]
Want to learn another language or another new skill as an adult? Then it's important for you to understand how adults learn.
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